%0 Journal Article
%T The Backstage of the Russian Policy towards the Chechen Republic and its Consequences
%A Szklarski, Artur
%J Public Administration Yearbook
%V 2020
%R 10.4467/24497800RAP.20.011.12905
%N 2020 (6)
%P 203-224
%K politics, Russia, Chechnya, FSB, terrorism
%@ 2449-7797
%D 2020
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/rocznik-administracji-publicznej/article/kulisy-rosyjskiej-polityki-wobec-republiki-czeczenii-i-jej-konsekwencje
%X 
	The Russians lost the First Chechen War. Russia’s federal security service (FSB) organised kidnappings of western citizens to change the real image of the Chechen people in Russia and the West. The FSB agent Adam Deniyev founded the first Wahhabi organisation in Chechnya. Shamil Basayev, who collaborated with Russia’s military intelligence Service (GRU), carried out a series of terrorist attacks in Russia. Gradually, the Chechen national liberation movement was transformed into a jihadist movement. The FSB carried out the infamous bomb attacks in Russia, which, together with Basayev’s land offensive in Dagestan, became the reason for starting the Second Chechen War, won by the Russians. After the attack on the president of Chechnya Akhmad Kadyrov, power was taken over by his son, the dictator Ramzan Kadyrov, who is still ruling today, and is Vladimir Putin’s right-hand man in the North Caucasus.